nice subject :)
> The bottom line is this: do you really want to trudge through a bunch of
> boring discussions about PCs and Windows?
>
> I certainly do not.
Not if they're boring, no. The way I see it the list seems to pretty much
manage itself though - whether people are even reading the 'official' topic
guidelines or not.
The diversions into guns or cars that seem to crop up every now and then aside,
the computing aspect of things seems to stay largely 'on topic' in my mind in
that it seems to typically fit with what I'd call 'classic'. When there are
computer-related posts about something reasonably new then the poster normally
has a good enough reason for asking here, and I would have though those posts
can be forgiven. The signal to noise ratio is still low, and I would expect
that (almost) everyone receives posts that are notionally 'on topic' but oof no
interest to them anyway.
I don't see any need to get our panties in a twist and thrash out what is and
isn't on topic to be honest - it all seems to work well enough already as far
as I can see.
cheers
Jules
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Received on Thu Sep 04 2003 - 11:50:00 BST